Ferdinand Hodler was a Swiss painter. He is one of the best-known Swiss painters of the nineteenth century. His early works were portraits, landscapes, and genre paintings in a realistic style. Later, he adopted a personal form of Symbolism which he called "parallelism".
- Occupation
- painter, university teacher, designer, lithographer
- Position held
- chairperson
- Citizenship
- Switzerland
- Born
- March 14, 1853
- Died
- May 19, 1918